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† ˈglozer Obs. Forms: 4 glosour, 4–5 glosar(e, 4–7 gloser, (6 glosier), 7– glozer. [f. gloze v.1 + -er1; after OF. gloseor.] 1. One who writes glosses; a commentator.
1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 284 Falce gloseris maken goddis lawe derk. c1440Promp. Parv. 199/2 Glosare of textys, glosator. 1565Jewel Def. Apol. (1567) 226 But that these woordes..touche..onely the Priestes and the Ministers, the very Gloser [ed. 1611 glosser] him selfe was neuer..so impudent, so to saie. 15..Fulke in Marbeck Bk. of Notes (1581) 55 These words (saith the Romish gloser) are the Ciuill and Ecclesiasticall power. 2. A flatterer, sycophant.
c1400Apol. Loll. 105 Simplist glosars, & warst willid traytoris. a1420Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 3088 A gloser also kepethe his silence Often, where he his lorde seethe hym mystake. 1456Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 235 Now gloserys fulle gayly they go. 1575Gammer Gurton iv. 1 Yet must I talke so sage and smothe, as though I were a glosier [rime-wd. loser]. 1604Middleton Father Hubbards T. Wks. (Bullen) VIII. 61 Else would not glosers oil the son, Who, while his father liv'd, his acts did hate. 1659Hammond On Ps. cxxxix. 14 God would at length discover and bring out such glozers. 1783Ainsworth's Lat. Dict. (Morell) 1, A glozer, adulator. |